http://www.metafilter.com/tags/girard Posts tagged with 'girard' at MetaFilter. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:23:14 -0800 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:23:14 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/51219/You%2Dwant%2Dsomething%2Dbecause%2Dsomeone%2Delse%2Ddoes <a href="http://theol.uibk.ac.at/cover/girard_le_monde_interview.html">Mimetic rivalry on a planetary scale.</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Girard">Rene Girard</a> is the author of several <a href="http://theol.uibk.ac.at/cover/links/">books</a> developing the idea that human culture is based on sacrifice as the way out of <a href="http://www.cottet.org/girard/index.en.htm">mimetic</a>, or imitative, violence between rivals. When one rival is successful in obtaining the love object, violence is precipitated, which falls on the head of certain scapegoats, of whom <a href="http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9604/girard.html">Jesus Christ</a> is the archetype. The violence can be traced in <a href="http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/AP0201/interv.htm">literature</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.51219 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:23:14 -0800 Christianity girard scapegoating violence Tarn http://www.metafilter.com/24394/Violence%2DAnd%2DThe%2DSacred%2DRen0233%2DGirard%2Dand%2DScapegoat%2DTheory Human beings, according to French thinker <a href="http://andrewmarr.homestead.com/files/girard/violencekingdom.htm" title="How did this happen? At the crucial point, when a society teetered on the brink of destroying itself, the mimetic contagion suddenly focused on one person. This one person, and this person only, was deemed responsible for all of the social chaos. As everybody was imitating everybody else in reciprocal violence, now everybody imitated everybody else in blaming the one person. The responsible person was then killed through spontaneous mob violence. The immediate relief of peace and order was dramatic. So great was the sense of awe in the face of what happened that the person killed was then worshiped as a deity. The person who was totally responsible for the social violence became totally responsible for the peace. Girard refers to this process as a scapegoating mechanism.">Ren&#0233; Girard</a>, are fundamentally imitative creatures. We copy each other's desires, and are in perpetual conflict with one another over the objects of our desire. In early human communities, this conflict created a permanent threat of violence, and forced our ancestors to find a way to unify themselves. They chose a victim, a scapegoat, an evil one against whom the community could unite.<br><br>Scapegoat Theory 101 <b>?</b> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24394 Tue, 18 Mar 2003 00:54:04 -0800 girard renegirard scapegoat y2karl